From: [p--b] at [festival.ed.ac.uk] (Paul O'Brien) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks Subject: X-Men Danglers FAQ - Part 6 Date: 27 Dec 1995 17:05:15 GMT ======================================= The X-Men Danglers FAQ, Part 6: X-Force ======================================= Last updated: 21 December 1995 Issues covered: #1-49 Closed Danglers --------------- 1. #1, p.31: Nick Fury sends GW Bridge to arrest X-Force. Yes, I know Bridge made an effort, but the government appears to have given up. Are X-Force still wanted? No. Xavier appears to have sorted things out with Valerie Cooper. 2. Annual #1: What happened to Artie, Wiz Kid and Leech after this story? Artie and Leech are over with Generation X nowadays. Wiz Kid isn't, but let's be honest - who cares about Wiz Kid? Danglers -------- 1. #5, p.1: Was there any particular reason why Tyler wanted to get the services of Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut? 2. #5, pp.12-13: One of many examples of Feral's flirting with Shatterstar and getting extremely negative signals from him. A long-running subplot, this was dumped without any apparent resolution. 3. #5, p.18: "Project: Wideawake is ready to go back online", according to Henry Peter Gyrich. And "we've recently reacquired the financial backing we've needed since Shaw Industries collapsed." Who from? This probably ties into the later Nimrod storyline, and to the discovery of Sentinels in X-Factor. However, the financial backing remains unrevealed. 4. #6, p.5: Who is Phantazia? Some background details can be found in X-Men Unlimited #2, but not a great deal. 5. #6, p.7: Cable has been dealing with AIM. Is this still ongoing? Do X-Force know about it? Vanessa suggests that they wouldn't be very happy to find out. 6. #7, p.9: The Toad suddenly displays a new superhuman power to secrete resin from his hands. Where did he get it? J Wilson points out that the Toad has, in the past, used a clinging power from time to time, and this might be a variation on that. 7. #8, pp.16-17: Cable is looking for Externals in the hope that they can be used to overthrow Apocalypse. But why Externals? Why not just get lots of very powerful people to fight them? Other than being immortal, the Externals aren't all that powerful - so why is Cable so convinced that he needs an External? 8. #10, p.7: Gideon claims that Nicodemus has endured "centuries of hardship." Details? 9. #10, p.12: Cable says that he has fought the Externals in the past. Again, what are the details? 10. #10, p.21: What happened to Rictor between his leaving the New Mutants and resurfacing in Toronto? He was supposed to be going to Genosha to rescue Wolfsbane, which makes one wonder how he ended up in Canada. 11. Annual #1: What is the history of this alternate future? Is it what will happen in our reality? If so, how did Illyana become Darkchilde? Is Cyberlock the same being as Douglock? (Cyberlock's description of himself is not consistent with Douglock's.) Who is Powerpax? 12. #11, p.19: Garrison Kane says that the first line-up of Weapon: PRIME all have an interest in taking Cable down. As far as Kane and Rictor are concerned, this is fine. But why do Tygerstryke and the Wendigo have an interest in Cable? For that matter, is that thing really a Wendigo? If so, who is it? 13. #12, p.2: How is Gideon married to Crule? 14. #12, p.4: What was Crule doing in Nazi Germany? When did Gideon have the opportunity to kill Crule, and why did he pass it up? 15. #14, p.5: Why did Crule want to kill Cannonball? That wasn't his mission. Gideon sent him to stop Cable. 16. #15, p.11: Why did Gideon want Cannonball to stay out of External affairs? 17. #17, p.6: Stryfe produces a knife to attack Apocalypse. The knife is covered in carvings related to Apocalypse and appears to have been some sort of religious artifact. Apocalypse identifies it as the knife that he once used to kill Stryfe. How and why? This is particularly important given that Stryfe's body was destroyed at the end of the X-Cutioner's Song, or so it would appear. So who did Apocalypse kill? Was it another temporal counterpart of Stryfe? Or was it Cable? 18. #17, p.11: Cable says that he first encountered Stryfe about eight years previously. Obviously there's a lot of unrevealed stories there. 19. #21, p.11: Why does Gideon consider X-Force a threat to the Externals' existence? 20. #22, p.19: Who is Sluggo? What was his connection to the Weapon X project? 21. #23, p.7: Who are Killjoy and Double Trouble? 22. #23, p.11: Tygerstryke declares that Weapon PRIME will track down Domino, Grizzly and Hammer. Obviously they haven't got around to it yet. Are they planning to? 23. #23, p.18: Deadpool says that he "never liked what you and her [Vanessa and Tina] had together." What's he referring to? The words "Mystique and Destiny" spring to mind, for some strange reason. 24. #24, p.8: Rusty Collins and Skids were being sent by Valerie Cooper to the X-Men's mansion. Why? 25. #26, p.21: Reignfire refers to Wildside's "oh-so-proper upbringing." So what is Wildside's origin story, then? 26. Annual #2: What happened to Neurotap after this story? The story leaves her fate open, as she elected to stay with Martin Strong and X-Force made all sorts of comments about not trusting him to go through with his side of the deal. I regard this as being deliberately left open, which is why it's here. 27. #27: Who is Locus? Much speculation has it that she's Illyana Rasputin, or a counterpart. However, Fabian Nicieza is apparently quite convinced that she isn't. 28. #27, p.11: Moonstar says that she "fell screaming from the skies, an angel cast out of a heaven I didn't belong in." Lovely poetry, but what on Earth is she talking about? For that matter, what happened to her horse? [Annual #3 confirms that it's Brightwind.] And how did her powers change? 29. #28, p.23: What happened to Locus and Sunspot after they disappeared? 30. #30, p.7: Windsong is introduced as Shatterstar's wife. What are the details? 31. #30, p.8: What happened to Tempo after leaving X-Force? Again, a whatever-happened-to, but I got the impression that we would be seeing her again. 32. #30, p.18: Arcade identifies the people who hired him to attack Shatterstar and X-Treme as "Milbury" and Major-Domo. Why did they do it? Note that "Milbury" is usually an alias for Mister Sinister. 33. #32, p.10: Domino mentions that she is married. 34. #34, p.12: Allison Crestmere heads off to England to find her parents. Did she? Meanwhile, Manuel de la Rocha stalks off on his own, muttering about how this being nice business isn't all that it's cracked up to be. 35. Ann #3, p.3: Moonstar observes that there doesn't seem to be any particular reason why Forearm joined the MLF. He doesn't really like the other members and he isn't all that committed to the ideology. So why is he there? 36. Ann #3, p.32: How did Sunspot become Reignfire? In issue #50, Cable's comments seem to suggest possession. This still leaves the question, "who by?" 37. #37, p.6: Why is Apocalypse partly mechanical? What happened to him in the Celestial ship? 38. #37, p.7: Absalom has the Legacy Virus. Will he die of it? God, I hope so. 39. #37, p.16: Burke - a precognitive - has predicted that Cannonball will save the Externals from the Legacy Virus. How will he do this? 40. #39, p.21: What happened to Prosh after leaving Earth? Yes, I know - another whatever-happened-to. But they devoted an entire issue to turning him into Prosh. I doubt they'd do that just to write him out. 41. #40, p.15: How did Cable become a lawyer? He says he graduated in the class of 1988. That seems awfully recent. How does it fit into his chronology? (In all fairness, Marvel claim that Fantastic Four #1 took place circa 1985, so Cable would have graduated contemporaneously with comics published in the late 1960s and early 1970s.) 42. #42: What's Emma Frost playing at? She seems to be trying to undermine Warpath's self-confidence. But why? 43. #42, pp.16-17: a subplot about a ninja trying to rescue his son Asahi from a biochemical research plant, and a reference to the Clan Yashida. 44. #43, p.12: Where have Locus and Sunspot been? How did he abandon her? Where did she learn D'Barian and Shi'ar? Shi'ar isn't too difficult to envisage. But the only inhabited planet in the D'Bari system was D'Bari IV, the home of the Asparagus People, killed by Dark Phoenix in issues of Uncanny published some fifteen years ago. Locus's comments on p.13 suggest that she can travel through time, which would explain a lot. 45. #43, p.14: Some effort is put into introducing Priscilla Cole. So what's the story? 46. #43, p.16: Why is Reignfire attacking the MLF? And did Forearm survive? 47. #44: What happened in the last two weeks? 48. #45, p.14: The first of many hints that Shatterstar's origin is false. See also #46, where a man very similar to Shatterstar can be seen in the files of the Weisman Institute. 49. #45, p.21: What happened to the tracking station in Siberia and why does the survivor blame Professor X? 50. #45, p.21: How did the Mimic end up in Siberia and back in his original-X-Men form? 51. #46, p.19: What happened to the Mimic after his fight with Sunspot? 52. #47, p.22: Why does Jeremy Stevens appear with the Gamesmaster's shadow? And is anybody ever going to go and rescue Deadpool? 53. #48, p.13: Where has Sebastian Shaw been hiding all this time? 54: #49, p.2: When did Tessa become telepathic? (She describes herself as a novice in issue #50.) 55: #49, p.19: Marty Smith reveals that Boomer's mother is still alive. ---------------------------- end of part six -------------------------